The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-19
CUPID's SLY FRANKS.
Sensational Elopement of a Beautiful
French Countess.

PARIS, June 1.-THE Figaro says sensa-
ton has been caused in French high life by
the successful kidnapping of Countess re-
Gently divorced. The kidnapers Wore masks,
the Figaro says, and seized the Countess as
she was walking in the Bots de Boulogne.
They eluded pursuit, and the present where
apouts OF the lady, the paper says, is UNI
known except to her captors, who have
managed to completely battle their prison
er,s friends as well as the police.
II has been aScertained that the kidnapped
lady was Countess Campos the divorced
wife of the Due de La Tore, a son of the
late Marshal Serrano, of Spain. The Span
lSh Embassy have instituted an energetic
search for the lady, but as yet have no clew
to her Whereabouts
The Temps says the abductor of the
Countess Campos is Frenchman, who had
been assiduOuS in his attentions to the
countess and vainly endeavored to persuade
her to marry him.
A PRIZE INDEED.
The lady is Mercedes Martinez Campos, a
Cuban heiress and great beauty She re-
ceived dowry of 4300, 900 on her marriage
The marriage was nullified through the pas
sage of the Naquet law, although she had
sued for divorce long before. She recovered
part of her fortune and resumed her maiden
an elderly lady in the Rue Christophe Co
lombe. Both were walking in the Bots de
Boulogne, when a party of men,
two of whom were masked, seized
the young lady, thrust her into
carriage and drove rapidly away.
unnoticed. The female accomplices IL the
meantime coarsely abused the ladys COM
panion, Mile. Louise, until the carriage was
out of sight, when they slipped off The
l0USnh0lH inch ax ole
giving color to the conjecture that the lady
herself was privy to the scheme which had
been concocted in order to force her family
to give their consent to a love match.
Being legally spinster and Spaniard, she
Will not be of age until she reaches her 22d
year.
/ LATER PARTICULARS.
PARIS, June 1S.-As a result of the in
quiries in the Campos abduction case, the
police are OF the opinion that the affair was
| prearranged, as both parties are of age The
police viii not interfere. Thealleged abduc-
ton is said to be NJ. Delatour Garboeuf 1t
is said that he wrote a letter to the young
lady lnstruCting her to wear light dress If
she was willing to accompany him; other
wise to wear dark dress. On the day be-
| fore the alleged abduction it is reported that
the lady implored her milliner to be pune
tual with her new light dress, and it is said
that she wore the same dress in the Bots de
Boulogne. Ex-Queen Isabella does not be-
lieve that the lady consented to go, and has
written letter to the authorities asking
them to pursue the matter further. All
kinds of rumors are in circulation, but no
facts can be learned.
''BARKIS" WAS WILLING.
The man with whom the Countess Campos
| left France is Viscount Delatour Garboeux.
The couple went to Antwerp, and will go
from there to England, where they will be
married. The Countess has written to the
papers saying that her object in running off
with the Viscount was to secure her release
| from her oppressors and to regain her lib
erty. The fortune of the Countess is esti.
mated aft r 800 600 francs